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Published: July 27th 2008
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We woke to our alarms at 7am this morning, got ready - dressed to impress (Well the benefits people anyway!), packed up our cool bags and drove a short way to a 5 & Diner for breakfast - this is a typical 50's styled diner, Sort of thing you'd see in Grease or Back to the future, each little booth had its own mini juke box.
We then drove on to Mesa (about 45 mins) to the Salt Lake Tubing centre. By now my mum was panicking trying to change her mind, but there was no going back! Keith tried to reassure her that the rapids wouldn't be too bad - This made her worse!! We parked up, got our tubes then boarded the bus that takes you to the start point.
We placed a towel across each tube (save us burning on the rubber) we then tied all the tubes together including one that had our beer and picnic in, and got in - At first it seemed really cold but was soon fine, we slowly floated along, my mum relaxing totally - then, approached some rapids, and some more, and a few more all these were quite
5 & Diner
At breakfast tame, it was the next set we had to worry about! We approached them quite fast, and they had rocks sticking up right out the water, "bums up" Keith would shout! Who got hit by a rock? Correct - My mum! Nige got caught over a rock but managed to get away, then a wave splashed right across my mum, almost throwing her out, that wasn't even the end of it, we got thrown against the edge and dragged through the trees - which of course whacked my mum (and Keith) in the face. You would have thought we'd have ended up in hospital - but we all came out unscathed!
It was then back to totally relaxing floating, Joe got out and swam for a bit then Keith had the idea that Joe should walk across to the edge whilst it was calm and put what rubbish we had accumulated so far in the bin. So joe did. Problem was we picked up a current and started floating off quite quickly. Joe couldn't catch up. Keith managed to grab some branches and eventually Joe was back with us, after some very intriguing running (if you can call it
Chilling
Floating down the river that!) At a few points along the river people were base jumping. Considered it. But no!
When we reached the end point - four hours later, Nige pulled us in..... eventually! we took the short walk to the bus, and got in the car - 107F...! Bloody hot! An hour later we arrived back at Keiths, Nige jumped straight in the pool the rest of us showered off the fish smell!
My mum loved it, all that panicking for nothing!
Nige screamed - Joe ran to his rescue, a titchy tiny spider, well alright it was a black widow with 7 eggs round her. Nige got out the pool, Joe got in! Caught the spider in a bottle, then got all the eggs and Keith threw them over the side and away! Nige relaxed..... then see the killer bee's! But they were harmless.
We all got ready and Keith suggested a Brazilian restaurant we could try, so we took our car and Sylvia's that they leave in Arizona. Joe and Keith went together and us 3 in ours. We arrived at the Brazilian and it was closed, so Keith then suggested a place called 'The Melting
Was chilling
Just about to hit the rapids, Joe looking out for my mum! Pot' but there was an hour wait! So 3rd time lucky we headed fror a Mexican. We pulled out on to the road and stopped at the traffic lights, Then Keith began revving the car - We was thinking - What is he doing, then we realised he had actually broken down, and we were stuck with 2 lanes of traffic either side of us. On went the hazards in both cars and Nige got out to help push it to a safer place. As they were waiting for a green light, 2 police cars pulled up! One cop got out and stopped the traffic whilst Keith, Nige, Joe and a cop pushed in into a bus stop! Keith called the recovery vehicle and whilst he waited we headed off to bar! We ended up eating here and of all names it was called Rock Bottom!
2 hours later we all arrived home, Keith grabbed a much needed beer and we all and hit the sack
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Katie
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Ha ha how funny! It's not a true holiday unless you see a copper!! Poor Keith, while you lot went to the bar! By the way I have my own black spider at your house! It is on your curtain and massive and I can't bring myself to get rid of it. Perhaps if Liz is reading this she might do it one day!! xxx